@Alonzo Brickovsky: No you get a 1000 piece Lego built dust-sheet to keep your Chiron under, just like all the real ones are. The only time you'll see a real one on the road is on Top Gear or The Grand Tour :(

Now really, at its core, the Technic Porsche set is bare-bones, with next to no real standout functionality and provisions for motorisation. I think that the only that Chiron is gonna be worth anything is if it's motorised on both axles and can be driven with RC controls.

Another set that will be sold out on day one because of re-sellers. If the Porsche with 3600 parts was 300€, this will probably hit the 400€ mark if taking the same 11c/pcs logic. The rims look cool, sadly not blue, I hope they are durable and not just suitable for display. Hope TLG will make the blue+black Chiron version and non-square blue breaking calipers.I won't make the same mistake as with the Porsche to buy it as soon as it is released because now it's over 30% cheaper. Better wait a year this time.

Not a fan of the Chiron, so this'll be a pass. Curious as to how they price it. The Porsche hit 200 euro very quickly from a large number of sellers. Asking for more than 300 euro for this set will be a big ask.

@Hectorus Vectorus Maximum: gauging from scale + number of parts it's unlikely the Chiron will be motorised cause no space left inside for motors, steering servo and a bulky battery box (shrinking that bat box would be the innovation of the century by Lego as far as I'm concerned!).

That Porsche was very promising but in the end never really delivered. It was overpriced, the gearbox apparantly worked the wrong way around and the design didn't really look like a Porsche. Considering how I don't really care for Bugatti's anyway I'm giving it a pass. Then again, I don't think anyone at LEGO cares considering they sell that stuff anyway. Oh well.

Hmmm... I heard that Lego were making a Bugatti Chiron set and quickly clicked through to the article thinking it was a Creator Expert like the Ferrari F40. I'm sure it'll look great in Technic but I was hoping for some more iconic, large scale System versions of super cars. I guess Speed Champions put pay to that. The price seems astronomical - but in keeping with the Bugatti brand ;)

In terms of complexity this one will be way beyond the GT3 RS if they stay as close as possible to real life. 16 cylinders rather than 6 and in a W formation. AWD as well. At least the body shape of the Chiron should allow the designers a bit more space to fit things in a Lego sense. Quite bulbous compared with the Porsche. The car is quite a bit larger in real life too so if it's the same scale it'll be huge. Going to be busting $650 AUD at this rate though...

There are a lot of curves on that car. It'll be interesting to see how close (or otherwise) the designer can get. And with current conversion rates putting this at over £300, it had better be darned good.

That is going to $500 to $600 Canadian. Will be interesting to see the w16 engine. Wonder how they are going to do the automatic transmission. Also all wheel drive. Hope it have more studded bricks in the car. Probably get it.

1) This will be the first 4WD Technic supercar since 8880 (depending how whether you consider 8466 a supercar)2) It will be very interesting to see how Lego have modelled the W16 engine - hoping for a truly authentic single crankshaft arrangement - and the quad turbos. The engine can be seen in the teaser video.

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